France: On the Edge of the Periphery “No: France Is Not Bankrupt” – Really? So What Is the Catalyst for a French Crisis? France Cannot Be France Without Greatness San Antonio, Chicago, Bismarck, Denver, and Toronto "The emotional side of me tends to imagine France, like the princess...

A Great Deal If You Can Get It Cyprus, Croatia, Geneva, and a Search for Art The France that I see as I look out from the bullet train today is far different from the France I see when I survey the economic data. Going from Marseilles to Paris, the countryside is magnificent. The farms are laid out as...

Unsustainability and Transition One Bubble to Rule Them All The Year of the Windshield Godzilla Redux: Disaster A or Disaster B France Is the New Greece US: The Crisis Games Entitlement Unsustainability London, Athens, Geneva, Toronto, and New York “There are decades when nothing happens and there...

Breaking Up Is Hard to Do And Then There Is Disaster C Who Do You Trust? Carlsbad, San Francisco, Atlanta, and Buenos Aires They say that breaking up is hard to do. Now I know, I know that it's true Don't say that this is the end. Instead of breaking up I wish that we were making up again. –...

The official visits to Paris during the first week of July by three African heads of state raised more questions than answers about the Africa policy of François Hollande, the newly-elected French President. On July 2 it was President Alpha Conde of Guinea, on July 5 Ali Bongo, President of Gabon...

Print or Perish Just Say “Nein” And Then There Is France How Will it Play Out? Some Thoughts on the Super Committee New York, Hong Kong, and Singapore Europe is again at center stage. At conferences and meetings and in private conversations, it is the topic of the hour. I have thought a lot...

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by Chip Krakoff in Crime & Punishment , Democracy and Governance , Politics , Social Issues Few current issues have become more emotionally charged than the head coverings worn by many Muslim women, both in traditionally Muslim countries and in the West. This plays out in Turkey, where the ruling...

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Interview by Louis James, Editor, International Speculator ) L : I'm sitting with Doug Casey in his apartment in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Above me, on the wall behind the sofa I'm sitting on, is a mural depicting the brutality of war. Every time you write about the military, Doug, we lose a large...